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Originally posted by paranoid
If you are going to write stupid jokes about farts, please check your science first. Otherwise you would look like an idiot. Earth's diameter is about 12800 km and so about 50-100 Earths or so would fit between the Sun and the prominence next to each other.
P.S. The fact that NASA's APOTD writer fucked up and oversimplified it does not exempt you from responsibility for what you write.
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Well paranoid, 50 to 100 Earths, huh? Thanks, that’s very enlightening.
Now the web site says the whole prominence is about 300,000 km long. The distance from the Sun’s surface appears to be about 1/6th of that or about 50,000 km. You say the Earth is 12,800 km in diameter? I believe you. So if I divide 50,000 km by 12,800 km, I get just over 23 Earths in there.
Since you are obviously an educated person, would you be kind enough to explain what I’m doing wrong.
Well, either way, the statement that the earth will fit in that space, appears to be correct. It will fit.
